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CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]

@ CommunistCuddlefish @hexbear.net

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  • Mr. Binko, my work pet

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  • Mr. Binko is adorable, but would you mind letting us see Precious Comrade Wonkybear as well? I love geese. Its sweet that the same goose has been around for 4 years

  • [Serious Question] Do most men just have ED now, is it really common in younger folks?

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  • Tbh I think sometimes about how fucked the medical testing landscape is going to be if a bunch of people are walking around with undiagnosed damage from covid

  • Do you have an estimate of when you're no longer wearing a mask out most places? Like at a crowded store or gym? I'm going maskless a little here and there and I'm wondering if I'm being dumb.

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  • P.S. The gym is one of the worst places to unmask, because people are breathing very heavily there.  If someone's contagious (which, again, they can be contagious before symptoms even set in!), they're spewing more infectious aerosols in the same amount of time because the volume of air they're exhaling is greater than if they were just sitting on the bus.  Meanwhile, people are breathing in more air than normal as well, which also means a higher dose of aerosols

    There's an inherent contradiction in going to the gym and unmasking. Going to the gym: working out, trying to get/stay fit and healthy.  Unmasking: gambling with your health, when if the gamble goes badly you may become too fatigued to ever work out again.  May have messed up cardiovascular health.  May struggle to walk up and down the stairs without getting winded anymore.  I've known so many semi-competitive athletes who got wrecked by covid years after the pandemic supposedly "ended".

    At this point, wearing a mask is akin to not picking up the habit of chain-smoking.  Actually that's a bad analogy, because it would be far healthier and safer to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes in once sitting once every 6 months than to get Covid once every 6 months.

    P.P.S.  Is getting erections important to them?  Better keep that mask on:  https://hexbear.net/comment/6685613

  • [Serious Question] Do most men just have ED now, is it really common in younger folks?

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  • Nobody's mentioning the airborne elephant in the restaurant:

    If you’re suddenly experiencing erectile dysfunction (ED), it might be connected to something you wouldn’t necessarily expect — a recent COVID-19 infection.

    Studies show that COVID-19 may increase your risk of ED or worsen the condition if you’re already dealing with an inability to get or maintain an erection.

    Vascular effects. Erections are powered by blood flow to the penis. COVID-19 can cause cell damage in blood vessels that restricts blood flow and reduces erections, says Dr. Berglund. (Inflammation caused by COVID-19 is also a contributing factor.)

    Overall health. ED is often a symptom of an underlying health issue, like heart disease or diabetes. COVID-19 can worsen those issues and weaken your erection. “It can be a sign of something more serious going on, particularly in young and healthy people who abruptly develop ED after having COVID-19,” notes Dr. Berglund.

    https://health.clevelandclinic.org/yes-covid-19-can-cause-erectile-dysfunction

    I have no knowledge about whether ED is more common nowadays or not but there is this

  • Do you have an estimate of when you're no longer wearing a mask out most places? Like at a crowded store or gym? I'm going maskless a little here and there and I'm wondering if I'm being dumb.

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  • Yep!

  • Do you have an estimate of when you're no longer wearing a mask out most places? Like at a crowded store or gym? I'm going maskless a little here and there and I'm wondering if I'm being dumb.

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  • Gym: skill issue. I lift in a respirator. I do cardio in a respirator. They should find a better fitting mask. Buy small quantities of different masks to try and then experiment. I had a problem like that with some masks and then found better ones. Ones with headstraps tend to sit tighter/more securely, which means they protect better and don't shift as much.

    If their shaved face is prone to irritation then there's something wrong with their shaving regimen. They should invest in the effort to learn how to use a safety razor because once you get good with them they tend to leave much less razor burn than disposable razors. Idk why. The initial investment is a bit higher than just buying a pack of disposable razors but it works out cheaper in the long run

    Store: this makes no sense. Covid is airborne, and they could very well be walking through suspended aerosols someone exhaled a few minutes ago in that empty aisle they're walking through.

    I do not buy their explanations; these sound like excuses. They need to actually take a measured look at why they want to not mask in these situations. When I've run into trouble masking, I figured out how to improve my system so that I would not have trouble masking, because I care very much about not getting Long Covid. And, being realistic, nowadays most of the "I don't want to protect myself" sentiment just comes from conformity, or not wanting to deal "weak"/" vulnerable".

    If this person is your partner you two should have a serious talk about what either of you would do if you or the other got Long Covid.

  • Do you have an estimate of when you're no longer wearing a mask out most places? Like at a crowded store or gym? I'm going maskless a little here and there and I'm wondering if I'm being dumb.

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  • Why would I go maskless when I can go masked?  There's no harm to me wearing a mask and I don't want long covid. Hell, even without the fear of long covid I hate to get a cold!

  • Do you have an estimate of when you're no longer wearing a mask out most places? Like at a crowded store or gym? I'm going maskless a little here and there and I'm wondering if I'm being dumb.

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  • Masking not just for yourself but for others too?

  • Whiny "entrepreneur" attempts to find fault with LiChess, one of the most popular chess websites in the world, because it was founded by a French communist (Thibault Duplessis) and is completely free

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  • The "generational trauma" thing is very real, I talk with people who grew up where I am and whose parents did too and they don't know shit about what's like coming from a 3rd or 2nd world background. Which is not a condemnation of them, but sometimes it gets gross, like a partner made some comment about wishing their family's history was as cool as mine because it produced a very interesting person (me), and I got kind of upset because it's a history of suffering due to the west's colonial actions, and between intergenerational trauma and firsthand trauma I and my siblings are utter wrecks of humans in ways that we wouldn't have been had we been white westerners. Sure there'd be other problems, but I would trade for those problems.

  • Whiny "entrepreneur" attempts to find fault with LiChess, one of the most popular chess websites in the world, because it was founded by a French communist (Thibault Duplessis) and is completely free

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  • Please don't fetishize nonwesterners or people with such ancestry like this. I've gotten this type of thing offline and it sucks. Her point about intergenerational trauma is a big one too, you don't know what you're wishing for, and the lack of understanding of the problems that come from it sucks to encounter too

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    Sengoku period - Novo General Megathread for the 17th-19th of November 2025

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  • Frank truly was one of the GOATs, and I sincerely hope he's doing well

  • [Racism] Wildest shit I've read all morning

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  • Average French musician (maybe not really but it's weird how many orientalist and other racially fetishistic music projects I've seen from French musicians)

  • Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson

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  • Sunday Casual Kino Lagniappetizer: Penguin Highway (2018) 6 pm EST/6 am BJT/ 12 am CET/11 pm UTC

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  • PENGUINS <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

  • Sunday Casual Kino Lagniappetizer: Detective Chinatown EP4 + Penguin Highway (2018) 5 pm EST/5 am BJT/ 11 pm CET/10 pm UTC

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  • Thank you <3! Do not delay on my account if I don't show, I may be summoned away b4 it starts

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    Hussite Wars - Novo General Megathread for the 14th-16th of November 2025

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  • Thank you for the explanation!

  • Sunday Casual Kino Lagniappetizer: Detective Chinatown EP4 + Penguin Highway (2018) 5 pm EST/5 am BJT/ 11 pm CET/10 pm UTC

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  • missing detective chinatown, would like to try to make Penguin Highway if I can because penguins are in a million+-way-tie for cutest creatures ever. Will you ping when chinatown's over?

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    Hussite Wars - Novo General Megathread for the 14th-16th of November 2025

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  • Oh sorry, I am not trying to litigate it! I was asking a sincere question.

    Actually, I just did another search on Hexbear and this time found an actual written up explanation: https://hexbear.net/post/464558

  • beancomics #4 (beansition)

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  • Your comics are so cute